Local officials react to Obama speech

10:52 PM,
Jun. 25, 2013

Written by

Adam B Sullivan
| Iowa City Press-Citizen

Hybrid cars, turning off the lights and wishful thinking aren't going to stop climate change. Experts - and now President Obama - are saying the impacts are inevitable and that the country ought to prepare.

"Climate change is here and it's going to get worse because of the emissions we continue to put into the air," said University of Iowa professor Jerry Schnoor, co-director of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research. "We're going to have to do things that cost money just to adapt to the climate."

Obama laid out his climate change agenda on Tuesday. The president has focused ...